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How to Save the Planet: Degrowth vs. Green Growth
A battle of political wills. As the climate crisis looms ever larger, a critical question has taken the stage: is economic growth incompatible with ecological sustainability? Green growth and degrowth proponents take staunchly different stances, but they do agree on one thing: overhauling the current economic growth model is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change and ecological degradation. How to do it, on the other hand, is up for debate.
At Oxford University’s School of Geography and Environment, Professor Samuel Fankhauser, a leading academic on green growth, and Professor Jason Hickel, a leading academic on degrowth, go head to head on one of the biggest questions of our time. This panel will be moderated by Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics.
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The Energy Equity Project (EEP): a framework for measuring equity in policy and programs!
The EEP is working to create a framework for measuring equity across energy efficiency and clean energy programs among utilities, state regulatory agencies, and other practitioners, while engaging and centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and frontline communities. An equity measurement framework, set to launch in beta form in 2022, will serve environmental and climate justice advocates, practitioners, regulatory agencies, and utilities to drive more equitable investments and outcomes in energy efficiency, distributed generation and storage (i.e. solar + batteries), demand response, electrification, and electric vehicle infrastructure.
About the speakers:
Kyle Whyte is George Willis Pack Professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in the Environmental Justice Specialization. His research addresses environmental justice, focusing on moral and political issues concerning climate policy and indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and the problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene more widely. He’s an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and serves on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Justin Schott serves as project manager for the Energy Equity Project. And prior to coming to the Energy Equity Project, he was executive director of Echo Works, a Detroit nonprofit from 2015 to 2020. He’s an avid social entrepreneur and a recognized sustainability leader in Detroit.